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There is always one or two parts where all data comes together and that is the heart of your application. Yeah those are the parts your users care about and pay you to make.
Pretty similar article to some old Spolsky blogposts: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/12/09/simplicity/
It's crazy how well Joel Spolsky's works aged. Some of them ended up proving wrong (like he once predicted that making graphic cards would be a very thin margin business[0]), but most are still true today. Probably truer than when they were written. [0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v In his defense, by the time 'video chips' were totally different things from today's mighty 5080.
Consumer GPUs really are not where the money is. It’s only a tiny fraction of Nvidia’s revenue, and much lower margin. Datacenter GPUs are where the volume and margins are.
Pretty similar article to some old Spolsky blogposts: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/12/09/simplicity/
It's crazy how well Joel Spolsky's works aged. Some of them ended up proving wrong (like he once predicted that making graphic cards would be a very thin margin business[0]), but most are still true today. Probably truer than when they were written. [0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v In his defense, by the time 'video chips' were totally different things from today's mighty 5080.
People know they should do coding tests in interviews, but not how they're designed to find smart and get things done.
People know they should code clean, but not how it only needs to be clean enough to spot dangers.
Some companies are paying super high prices for interns, and then don't try to integrate them into their recruiting funnel.
Yes, this is actually a critical insight into how to find product-market fit
Make
It
Stupid
Simple,
To
Experience
Revenue
= M.I.S.S.T.E.R.
https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/miss-make-it-stupid-simple/
Pretty similar article to some old Spolsky blogposts: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/12/09/simplicity/
It's crazy how well Joel Spolsky's works aged. Some of them ended up proving wrong (like he once predicted that making graphic cards would be a very thin margin business[0]), but most are still true today. Probably truer than when they were written. [0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v In his defense, by the time 'video chips' were totally different things from today's mighty 5080.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
There is of course some truth wrapped up in those thick layers of punditry, but even today that article gets trotted out as some kind of Revealed Truth of Software Engineering to be swallowed and digested without qualification.
(Edit: I agree that from-scratch total rewrites are rarely a good idea, and should require blindingly obvious justification at the very least. I still cannot take all the points about Old Code at face value, since rewrites often come about after Lots of Bugs have been found and continue to be found)
I didn't read the article but in my experience, 80% of the application are parts that you rarely touch, config stuff and "LEFT JOIN" stuff. There is always one or two parts where all data comes together and that is the heart of your application. Yeah those are the parts your users care about and pay you to make.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's crazy how well Joel Spolsky's works aged. Some of them ended up proving wrong (like he once predicted that making graphic cards would be a very thin margin business[0]), but most are still true today. Probably truer than when they were written. [0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v In his defense, by the time 'video chips' were totally different things from today's mighty 5080.
> today's mighty 5080 Consumer GPUs really are not where the money is. It’s only a tiny fraction of Nvidia’s revenue, and much lower margin. Datacenter GPUs are where the volume and margins are.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's crazy how well Joel Spolsky's works aged. Some of them ended up proving wrong (like he once predicted that making graphic cards would be a very thin margin business[0]), but most are still true today. Probably truer than when they were written. [0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v In his defense, by the time 'video chips' were totally different things from today's mighty 5080.
> today's mighty 5080 Consumer GPUs really are not where the money is. It’s only a tiny fraction of Nvidia’s revenue, and much lower margin. Datacenter GPUs are where the volume and margins are.